What went wrong with the Texas power grid? https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Wholesale-power-prices-spiking-across-Texas-15951684.php
I haven't verified the information in the following tweet. But it's interesting. https://twitter.com/amberwbooker/status/1361495140519587844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw > The next time you vote, just remember that ERCOT (Texas' electrical grid) > refuses to become part of the national electrical grid to avoid federal > regulatory oversight. There are only three electrical grids in the contiguous > United States - the Western Interconnection, the Eastern Interconnection, and > ERCOT. The interconnectedness of the former is why places iwth much harsher > winters than Texas don't experience the same types of outages. S many pe9ple > ar literally freezing to death tonight because we live in a state that > resents a fundamental tenet of federalism and is still salty about he > Confederacy losing the Civil War. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
